The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-02
SECRET OF MIND READING.
A Bostoa EDITOR rhInIs. ne "a. pl,,.,
cred It-He Experilueufs.

\ Boaeon Editor Thinks He Has Disrov-
cred It-He Experiments.
One Of the most attentive spectators at
the recent remarkable mind reading per-
tormances of Washington Irving Bishop
IN this city was Charles H Montague.
city editor of The Globe. Mr.. Montague
Is q gentleman Of Inc nervous organiza-
ton. and he made mp his mind that he
could duplicate Mr.. Bishops perform
nnces- BE ut once began practicing Mr..
bishops feats, and with such marked
success that on Friday evening he invited
some twenty Of his acquaintance 10 his
room at Hotel Middlesex 70 test his pow
ems. Here Mr.. Montague placed himself
N the power OF his friends, and under
conditions which rendered colIusiom inn
possible. BE successfully performed
every one Of the mastery achievements
with which Mr.. Bishop electrified Bos-
ton A scarf pin was taken from gen
tlcman and placed IN match safe sus-
pended from the chandelier. 3Ir. Mon
t7gue was then brought IN from am i'd
joining room blindfolded. BY taking
the hand of \ gentleman, who kept his
mind intently fixed ON the object, Mr..
Montague easily found the pin.
Various agents were selected from the
assembly, and with every one Mr.. Mon
taSuc had no difficulty IN finding the con-
cealed objects. When the unattached
process" was tried, articles were secreted
about tho room by various persons, and
By having the agent hold his hand about
four inches over Mr. Montague's hand
the latter easily found all the hidden arti-
eles- Mr. Montague then enacted the
mock murder scene exactly as Mr..
Bishop does It. While Montague was
produced, a pretense nl=s1e of stabbing a
lady, and the knife was then concealed in
tho sleeve Of gentleman. Mr.. Montague
wns then led IN, sti1 blindfolded, and by
simply clasping the hand Of an agent
whose mind was fixed intently ON the
act, he found the knife and repeated the
feint of stabbing. This operation was
followed by the finding of a spool hidden
IN the attic. Mr.. Montague being con-
nected with his agent only by piece of
wire.
Then the mind reader asked lady Sc
lected at random to think intently on the
first note OF some piece Of music. He
then went to the piano. and, after mo-
ment's lingering, played the ancient
song, Go Tell Rhody," which the lady
said was correct While blindfOlded Mr.
Montague succeeded IN four and one
half minutes In reproducing a geometrical
figure drawn by member Of the party
while he was absent from the room.
Many other far more complicated feats
wcre successfully performed.
Mr.. Montague says he performs these
acts through no occult power, but purely
by natural agency. He bIindfolds him.
self IN order to secure tho most perfect
abstraction of mind He wants the en-
tire outside world, except his subject OF
agent, shut out The subject must fix
his mind intenfly on the object to be dis
covered, and must give no muscular IN
dication whatever. The secret consists
m this: A person healthy In body and
mind will go toward an object of which
he Is thinking great deal easier than he
viii go away from It. He has been &C
cJIStomed ever since birth to do this. II
he fixes his mind intently on some object
he IS bound by the very nature of his
mental and physical organization to go
that way more easily than the opposite.
The province of the mind reader Is
simply to discover in which direction the
subject wishes to go and to lead him
there. Being blindfolded and having his
mind intently fixed ON his subject, the
mind reader observes the slightest indica-
tons of volition and by quicLness of mo
ton he soon throws his subject off his
guard, and the rest is easy. Various sly
tricks connected with the above described
principle enables the reader to perform
feGts without physical connection almost
as readily as with.-Boston Cor. PhiIa-
deIphia Press.